Better background checks

5:59 PM,
Jan. 25, 2013

Written by

Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel

Bob: The gun control proposals announced by Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama this past week will, among other things, call on Congress to restore the ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. Most Republicans and their pals at the National Rifle Association have dismissed the proposals, saying they have no chance of passing a Republican House of Representatives. Do you also reject these proposals?

Cal: Not all of them. I would support extending background checks to gun shows and "monitors" in schools, especially armed monitors trained in the use of weapons. ...